Rackstraw Downes (United States, born Great Britain, 1939), At the Confluence of Two Ditches Bordering a Field with Four Radio Towers, 1995, 48 x 46 inches. Private Collection.

Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008

December 16, 2010 through March 30, 2011

This is the first major survey of paintings by the MacArthur Foundation “genius” award-winning artist Rackstraw Downes (born 1939). Featuring more than 30 works, many of them multiple-part canvases, the exhibition will feature his minutely detailed paintings of exterior and interior panoramic scenes of the American land- and urbanscape during from 1972 to 2008. The exhibition will trace the artist’s career through major examples of his work that were painted in Maine, Texas, New Jeresy, and New York, including two haunting depictions of the untenanted interior spaces in the World Trade Center in 1998.

Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008 was organized by The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York.

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